Child Savings Accounts: Global Trends in Design and Practice
Child Savings Accounts: Global Trends in Design and Practice
This paper, published in 2008 by Jamie Zimmerman, Jeff Meyer, and Ray Boshara of the Global Assets Project, provides an overview of children's savings accounts (CSAs) around the world, and examines the trends that shape the global landscape of CSAs.
From the abstract: "Child Savings Accounts (CSAs) exist as policies, products, and programs, and are being offered by governments, financial institutions, and non-profits. This paper aims to provide an overview of the landscape of CSAs around the world; a summary of reasons why governments, financial institutions, and non-profits are offering CSAs and features of the accounts they offer; and a few of the obstacles these institutions face to successfully offering CSAs. By examining the breadth of CSAs as well as the areas of overlap between features of and rationales for CSAs currently offered by various institutions, we hope to illustrate some global trends in CSAs."
This paper, published in 2008 by Jamie Zimmerman, Jeff Meyer, and Ray Boshara of the Global Assets Project, provides an overview of children's savings accounts (CSAs) around the world, and examines the trends that shape the global landscape of CSAs.
From the abstract: "Child Savings Accounts (CSAs) exist as policies, products, and programs, and are being offered by governments, financial institutions, and non-profits. This paper aims to provide an overview of the landscape of CSAs around the world; a summary of reasons why governments, financial institutions, and non-profits are offering CSAs and features of the accounts they offer; and a few of the obstacles these institutions face to successfully offering CSAs. By examining the breadth of CSAs as well as the areas of overlap between features of and rationales for CSAs currently offered by various institutions, we hope to illustrate some global trends in CSAs."
